Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) are replacing printed theses and dissertations in all Rutgers graduate programs. As of October 2007 degree date, all Graduate School — New Brunswick dissertations are submitted electronically. Other graduate schools including Graduate School — Newark, Camden Graduate School, and the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, are participating in the program as well.

What are Rutgers Electronic Theses and Dissertations?

An ETD is a document that explicates the research of a graduate student. It is expressed in a form that is simultaneously suitable for machine archiving and worldwide retrieval. Rutgers full text ETDs will be available in RUcore. They also will be cataloged in IRIS with links to RUcore, included in ProQuest's Dissertations and Theses, and searchable on the Web.

Similar to its paper predecessor, the ETD has text, figures, tables, footnotes, and references. It includes a title page with the student's name, title, the name of the school, and the names of the committee members.

An ETD can be prepared using almost any word processing software and can incorporate relevant multimedia objects without the requirement to submit multiple copies on paper. Consequently, an ETD is less expensive to prepare, consumes virtually no library shelf space, and is likely to get wider recognition because of its availability on the Web.

Rutgers Electronic Theses & Dissertations (RUetd) Submission